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The Master’s bawn, the Master’s seat, a surly bodagh fills; 20

The Irish Rapparees 1922

The Master’s bawn, the Master’s seat, a surly bodagh fills;

The Irish Rapparees 1895

Out we went, to the winds an 'skies of heaven, bekase the rich bodagh made intherest aginst us.

The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

Ay, ar'n't you the cream of a dirty, black bodagh, for to go to attack the poor boy only for speaking to a dacent and a purty girl that hasn't a stain upon her name, or upon the name of one of her seed, breed, or generation, you miserly nager.

Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

Or if any man -- an 'he'd be' nothing else than a bodagh that would say it -- if any man would tell me that you would not, I'd -- yes -- I'd give him his answer, as good as I gave to ould Cokely long ago, and you all know what that was.

The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

"The father's as great a bodagh as him he was called after -- they're a bad pack -- an 'you mustn't think of any one belongin'to them."

Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

For instance, the peasantry will often say in allusion to some individual who may happen to be talked of, "Hut! he's a dirty bodagh;" but again, you may hear them use it in a sense directly the reverse of this; for instance, "He's a very dacent man, and looks the bodagh entirely."

Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

Are, you listening, Hugh? for it's to you I'm speaking, dear -- for no reason in life, acushla, only because he's a dirty, black bodagh, that his whole soul and body's not worth the scrapings of a pot in a hard summer.

Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

Sowl, Paddy, but the _bodagh_ parson has the advantage of him in the _cappul_.

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

It may be very well to tell a lie to them that can bear it -- to a rich bodagh, or his proud lady of a wife -- although it's a mean thing even to them; but to tell a lie to that heartbroken woman and her poor childhre -- her childhre -- aren't they her own?

The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831